George Floyd – What can I add?
It keeps happening, over and over and over again. Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, with plenty before, in between, and sadly I fear, more to come. Why? I think…
It keeps happening, over and over and over again. Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, with plenty before, in between, and sadly I fear, more to come. Why? I think…
He’s tried everything from rolling up his shirtsleeves and pointing at graphs to quoting Franklin Roosevelt (“we have nothing to fear but fear itself”), but still Albertans refuse to give…
Tenants from Mississauga, Scarborough, and Parkdale visited the mansions of their landlords George Grossman (CEO, Pinedale Properties) and Daniel Drimmer (CEO, Starlight) to demand no evictions and rent forgiveness for…
Protesters demonstrate against selling arms to Saudi Arabia, September 2017. Photo by AlisdareHickson/Twitter. The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing a lot about the current capacities of social movements and communities in…
The Ford Government has made a crucial, temporary change to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) that will impact countless employers and employees in the Province. By operation of Ontario Regulation…
How, over the span of 48 or 72 hours, does it seem that America has entered free fall? The brutal death of another unarmed black man at the hands of…
I can’t keep up with this. That’s why this is my second extension of the May 30 blog on the U.S. riots. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/george-floyd-protests-reporters-targeted-by-police-and-crowds Besides France, there are protests in Britain.…
Sparky: in yesterday walks today! pic.twitter.com/RBCpDaPTZH — SparkyTheTalkingRat (@RatSparky) May 31, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlU8OOUMq94 even as I was writing yesterday’s blog, things got terribly, terribly worse. Now, at least 30 American cities have been caught up in riots against racism – and, perhaps,…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the need to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis into a new normal, rather than trying to return to…
There is a future day coming where historians will look upon the Trump years as the definitive end of the American Empire, and in particular 2020 as the end of…
Metric – Youth Without Youth
We are the Russian Maoist Party, the party of rednecks, dirty migrants, chicks and faggots. That is what the bourgeoisie named us. If only it were not half-blind and could…
Justin Trudeau is facing a COVID Crisis. But just around the corner is a China Crisis. Robin Sears writes: It’s essential when dealing with authoritarian governments to analyze carefully what…
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was talking about older people and death in that often-quoted poem. It is much to far ahead of the election to make a confident prediction but…
The U.S. has reached the breaking point and where they go next is dependent on it’s citizens. They’re going to need to either go all the way, or give up…
ICE T sums it up for people who don’t understand the looting: People are saying.. They should protest like this or demonstrate like that… We tried Taking a Knee… A…
A recurrent theme on this blog is the subject of how something as benign sounding as “normal” can be a one-way road to the cliff-edge. Anthropologist, Jared Diamond, addresses normalcy…
So says the always fearless and indefatigable Cornell West. As I watched the following, I couldn’t help but think that if one feels threatened, distressed, dismissive of or outraged by…